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Robert L Belcher Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert L Belcher Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$72kYouth Development$57kArts & Culture$30kHealth$15kCommunity Improvement$14kCrime & Legal$4kReligion$4kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,932
Median grant
2
States reached
$132k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF S COLORADO$9,600
PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER$9,600
PUEBLO ACADEMY OF ARTS$5,932
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$5,500
SANGRE DE CRISTO COMMUNITY CARE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SANGRE DE CRISTO COMMUNITY CARE: $3k → 15%SANGRE DE CRISTO COMMUNITY CARE: $2k → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $12k → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $10k → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $9k → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $5k → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $5k → 15%REMERG: $2k → 12%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $5k → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $3k → 15%PUEBLO COOPERATIVE CARE CENTER: $3k → 15%SANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $3k → 15%SANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 8 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$172k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+49%

Still filing today

88%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County
    5× · 2019–2023 · $57k · revenue +183%
  • PC
    Pueblo Cooperative Care Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +101%
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • DD
    DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION & HOLY TRINITY
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -9%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Spring Back Colorado Inc

Full Reclycling of post-consumer mattresses and box spings along with providing redemptive employment opportunities for disadvantaged individuals in the community.

Unclassified
2
Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter
3
Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission

The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission educates, advocates, and cultivates peace, justice, nonviolence, and sustainability in the Pikes Peak Region, engaging our world.

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4
Spira Giving Colorado
Arts & Culture
5
Pueblo Rescue Mission

Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.

—
6
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
7
Sangre de Cristo Volunteers for Community Inc

Enrich lives and celebrate nature in southern Colorado

Community Improvement
8
Focus Reentry

To promote successful second chances, reduce recidivism, and enhance the well-being and safety of our community.

Crime & Legal
9
GoFarm

To train and support local farmers, connect communities with local agriculture, and increase equitable access to nutrient-rich food grown in Colorado.

Food & Nutrition
10
Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health
11
Advocates for Recovery Colorado

Recovery from addiction is a process of gaining sobriety and contributing to one's family and community as a healthy productive person. AFRC provides peer coach mentoring to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.

Human Services
12
San Luis Valley Community Mental Health Center

To provide access to quality behavioral health services that enrich lives and promote wellness. We are driven by a profound respect for human dignity and a desire to serve the underrepresented, the disenfranchised, and those who experience…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Earthlinks Inc; the most unlike its peers is Springer Spaniel Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County: $57,250 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo CountyPUEBLO ACADEMY OF ARTS: $29,742 · OtherPUEBLO ACADEMY OF ARTSCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF S COLORADO: $9,600 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF S COLORADODOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY: $5,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION & HOLY TRINITY: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $8,200 · Other+5 morePueblo Cooperative Care Center: $49,500 · Human ServicesPueblo Cooperative Care CenterSANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $8,500 · Human ServicesSANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLI…Remerg: $2,200 · Human ServicesSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterGROUNDWORK DENVER INC: $6,400 · Community ImprovementEARTHLINKS INC: $3,000 · Community ImprovementThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,600 · HealthPUEBLO SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $3,200 · EducationSPRINGER SPANIEL RESCUE INC: $500 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: $3,000 · Crime & LegalSPROUT CITY FARMS: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$113,792Human Services$60,200Housing & Shelter$10,500Community Improvement$9,400Health$6,600Education$3,700Crime & Legal$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County: $57,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPueblo Cooperative Care Center: $49,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK DENVER INC: $6,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUEBLO SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetEARTHLINKS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRemerg: $2,200 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSPROUT CITY FARMS: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County ↗
  • Who funds Pueblo Cooperative Care Center ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDWORK DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds PUEBLO SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EARTHLINKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Remerg ↗
  • Who funds SPROUT CITY FARMS ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGER SPANIEL RESCUE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Anschutz Family Found…Mile High United Way …Caring for Colorado C…Xcel Energy FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert L Belcher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert L Belcher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Robert L Belcher Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert L Belcher Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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